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Description:The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was also (perhaps even primarily) a literary magazine, promoting the development of American literature

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Miscellaneous Front Pages pp. C-2 -- United States Trade and Tonnage. Annual Report on the Commerce and Navigation of the United States pp. 3-14 -- The Life of Goethe pp. 14-22 -- The Natural History of New York. By Authority. (Concluded.) pp. 22-27 -- To the Hudson pp. 27-28 -- The Pleasures of the Pen pp. 28-36 -- Don Giovanni. Translated from the German Mrs. Von Hassel, pp. 36-44 -- Braddock's Defeat; or, the Battle of the Monongahela Dr. Mayo, pp. 44-49 -- The Rationale of Crime pp. 49-52 -- Poems for the People. No. 1. Song pp. 52-56 -- American Works of Painting and Sculpture pp. 56-66 -- Astronomical Observations By Authority of Hon. George Bancroft, Sec. of the Navy, pp. 66-71 -- Capital Punishment. Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment. In Assembly, May 1846 pp. 71-73 -- Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil. Hon. Edmund Burke pp. 73-76 -- Foreign Politics pp. 76-81 -- Financial and Commercial Review: Financial and Commercial Review pp. 81-87 -- Notices of New Books: Works of the Puritan Divines. Richard Baxter pp. 87 -- Notices of New Books: Memoirs of the Life of Addison. By Miss Aikin pp. 87-88 -- Notices of New Books: View a-Foot. By J. Bayard Taylor pp. 88 -- Notices of New Books: Glimpses of the Wonderful pp. 88-89 -- Notices of New Books: Amy Herbert; a Tale by the author of Gertrude Edited by Rev. W. Sewell, B. D. pp. 89 -- Notices of New Books: The Island Bride, and other Poems. By James P. Coleman pp. 89 -- Notices of New Books: Beauties of French History, and Beauties of English History pp. 89 -- Notices of New Books: Sisters of Charity. By Mrs. Annett Dorsey pp. 89 -- Notices of New Books: Notes on the Northwest; or the Valley of the Mississippi. By Wm. J. A. Bradford pp. 89-90 -- Notices of New Books: Lives of the Queens of England, form the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts. By Agnes Strickland pp. 90 -- Notices of New Books: Alderbrook. By Miss Emily Chubbuck pp. 90 -- Notices of New Books: Campbell's Complete Poetical Works pp. 90 -- Notices of New Books: Izaak Walton's Lives pp. 90 -- Notices of New Books: Elementary French Reader - Containing Fables, Select Tales, with a Dictionary of all the Words, translated into English. By M. DeFivas pp. 90 -- Notices of New Books: Arnold's Greek Prose Composition. Revised and corrected by Rev. J. A. N. Spencer pp. 90 -- Notices of New Books: English Synonymes - Classified and Explained by G. F. Graham. Edited by Henry Reed, LL. D. pp. 90-91 -- Notices of New Books: The Juvenile Companion and Fireside Reader. By Rev. Mr. Blake pp. 91 -- Notices of New Books: Boswell's Life of Johnson; including Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, and numerous Additions and Notes pp. 91 -- Notices of New Books: The Emigrant. By Sir Francis B. Head pp. 91 -- Notices of New Books: Guide to Wisdom and Virtue pp. 91 -- Notices of New Books: The Use of the Body in relation to the Mind. by George Moore, M. D. pp. 91 -- Notices of New Books: A Progressive German Reader: Adapted to the American edition of Ollendorf's German Grammar. By G. J. Adler, A. B. pp. 91 -- Notices of New Books: Juvenile Companion: Consisting of historical and biographical anecdotes and selections in poetry. By Rev J. L. Blake, D. D. pp. 91-92 -- Notices of New Books: Mrs. Southey's (Caroline Bowles') Poems pp. 92 -- Notices of New Books: Flowers of Fable: with Engravings pp. 92 -- Notices of New Books: Evenings at Home. By Dr. Aiken and Mrs. Barbauld pp. 92 -- Gossip of the Month pp. 92-96B